Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.

My goal is not to make a 100 crore film but a film which has got content.

As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.

The priority for me has always been good films.

I just know that if you put my film on with anybody else's in the league, it'll measure up.

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.